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Outreach

outreach at kibworthOur Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. We've also worked with the army on Project Nightingale at Caerwent. Find out more on what we do! And hear about the places we have visited last year, read some testimonials, and see what we can bring to your school to help bring the past alive!

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

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Read about the city's archaeology in the new publication Visions of Ancient Leicester

Contact the School

School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

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Publications

Taylor J. (2007) An Atlas of Roman Rural Settlement in England. London: CBA Research Report 151.

Taylor J. The survey and the Excavated sequences, in Millett M (ed.) 2006. Survey and Excavation of a Roman Roadside Settlement at Shiptonthorpe, East Yorkshire. Oxford: Oxbow. Yorkshire Archaeological Society Monograph 5: 7-74. 

Taylor J. 2006. The Roman Period, in NJ Cooper (ed.) The Archaeology of the East Midlands: An Archaeological resource Assessment and Research Agenda. University of Leicester, 137-60.

Eastaugh EJH and Taylor J. 2005. Geophysical survey of the Dorset Palaeoeskimo site at Point Riche, Newfoundland. In T Bell and MAP Renouf, Humans on the Landscape: Interdisciplinary studies at Port au Choix. Journal of Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 20:1, 157-73. ISSN 0823-1737.

Keay S, Millett M, Poppy S, Taylor J and Terrenato N. 2004. New approaches to Urbanism in the Tiber Valley. In H Patterson (ed.) Bridging the Tiber. Approaches to Regional Archaology in the Middle Tiber Valley. Archaeological Monograph of the British School at Rome 13, 223-36.

Taylor J. 2001. Rural society in Roman Britain. In S James and M Millett (ed.), Britons and Romans: advancing an archaeological agenda (CBA Publications): 46-59.

Taylor J. 2001. Multi-element soil analysis as an archaeological survey technique. In A Millard (ed.) Archaeological Sciences ’97. Oxford, British Archaeological Reports International Series 939: 150-59.

Millett M, Queiroga F, Strutt K, Taylor J and Willis S. 2001. The Ave Valley, Northern Portugal: an Archaeological survey of Iron Age and Roman Settlement. Internet Archaeology 9. Online version

Taylor J. 2000. Soil Phosphate Analysis and Field Survey. In M Pasquinucci and F Trement (eds.) Non Destructive Techniques Applied to Landscape Archaeology. Oxbow, 182-89.

Keay S, Millett M, Poppy S, Robinson J, Taylor J and Terrenato N. 2000. Falerii Novi: a new survey of the walled area. Papers of the British School at Rome 68, 1-93